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Excerpt from The Works of Flavius Josephus: Comprising the Antiquities of the Jews; A History of the Jewish Wars; And Life of Flavius Josephus, Written by Himself Romans) and to gather a great number of forces in order to punish them. And, as he said this, he exhorted the multitude [to go to war 3] for his abilities lay in making harangues to the people, and in being too hard in his speeches for such as opposed him, though they ad vised what was more to their advantage, and thus by his craftiness and his fallacies, for he was not unskilful in the learning of the Greeks, and in dependence on that skill it was, that he un dertook to write a history of these affairs, as aiming by this way of haranguing to disguise the truth. But as to this man, and how ill were his character and conduct in life, and how he and his brother were, in a great measure, the authors of our destruction, I shall give the reader an account in the progress of my narration. So when Justus had, by his persuasions, prevailed with the citizens of Tiberias to take arms, nay, and had forced a great many so to do against their will, he went out, and set the villages that belonged to Gadara and Hippos on fire; which villages were situated on the borders of Tiberias. And of the region of Scythopolis. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.